Re: Refracta beowulf xfce isos

These isos were made with refractasnapshot, which has a pretty extensive rsync excludes list and a high compression on the squashfs. Before that, most of the packages are installed without Recommends. The initrd is xz compressed - that saves a few MB.

I started with the no-X isos I made with live-sdk, installed onto virtual disks, added software and customized some stuff and then made a snapshot. Until ascii, these things fit on a CD.

Re: Refracta beowulf xfce isos

I looked around quite a bit and didn't see any instructions anywhere on how to verify the downloads using the SHA256SUMS.txt.asc file. Such instructions (or a pointer to where they are located) would be very helpful.

Phil

“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” — Abraham Lincoln

Re: Refracta beowulf xfce isos

pcalvert wrote:

I looked around quite a bit and didn't see any instructions anywhere on how to verify the downloads using the SHA256SUMS.txt.asc file. Such instructions (or a pointer to where they are located) would be very helpful.

The warning occurs because my key is not in the web of trust of the user who ran this. (It's an account I use for testing.) When I run it from my real account, the output ends with the Good signature line, because this key is signed by a key that I trust.

Note: If you normally use a different method for verifying official Devuan isos, you can do it that way. I use the same key for both.

Note 2: If you get a message saying that my key is EXPIRED then you need to refresh your keys (or at least my key).

Re: Refracta beowulf xfce isos

Here's an updated version of the firemenu script that might make it easier to work with. There are buttons to comment or uncomment the entire list at once. It's not packaged yet, so just drop the script into /usr/bin/.http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … s/firemenu

“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” — Abraham Lincoln

Re: Refracta beowulf xfce isos

WARNING: Device /dev/loop0 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda1 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda2 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
...and so on.

I didn't know what to do about it, so I just waited to see what would happen. After a long wait, the boot process eventually "died" and I thought the system had frozen. I pressed the "Enter" key to see if anything would happen, and I was presented with a working command prompt.

2nd attempt===========

Version: refracta10-beta2_xfce_i386-20200425_1631.iso

As before, error messages:

WARNING: Device /dev/loop0 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.

I pressed Ctrl-C and the boot process continued. Eventually I was presented with an Xfce desktop. The mouse was unresponsive, so I tried pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Nothing happened. However, the system wasn't totally locked up because the clock was working.

Phil

“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” — Abraham Lincoln